Yulia is still fighting for her life in hospital after the chemical attack on 4 March

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Victoria told the pro-Kremlin Mash Telegram TV Channel said: “He said that Sasha had a new grave stone erected. In other words, the whole chat could have been described in the words ‘everything’s fine’.

“Yulia came because it was the beginning of March and Sasha’s birthday was on March 1 and this would have been the first birthday they would celebrate without him.

“I think she just came to support her father.”

She insisted her uncle no longer had enemies.

She said: “When he moved to live in England, all his friends they were all visiting him. He was a very decent man.

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